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What a Gentleman!
by Peter Terzian
IN 2006, THE BRITISH designer David Gentleman blanketed London’s Parliament Square with 1,000 large paper cards, each one holding 100 splatters of blood-red ink. This installation, a protest... More

Wildfire and Frezno
by Colin Berry
Print contributing editor Colin Berry reviews Wildfire, a photography book of burned-out California locales, and Frezno, an unblinking look... More

Panter's Playhouse
by Bill Kartalopoulos
A review of Gary Panter, a formidable new monograph that surveys... More

Photographic Testimonies
by Brian Sholis
Two recent books, Inside North Korea and Welcome to Pyongyang, offer tightly circumscribed glimpses... More

Comics as Art
by Francesco Marciuliano
Francesco Marciuliano reviews Comics as Art: We Told You So, by Tom Spurgeon.... More

Spy: The Funny Years
by Michael Musto
Michael Musto reviews Spy: The Funny Years, a book celebrating the conception, rise, and fall of Spy magazine.... More

There's a Place in France
by Carlo McCormick
The Vice Photo Book and Parisiennes weigh in on two major cultural capitals during the past 100 years.... More

Willie & Joe
by James Sturm
James Sturm reviews the stunning two-volume collection Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, which contains more than 600 cartoons... More

The Next Page
by Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker reviews The Next Page, an elegant compendium of 30 examples of tables of contents.... More

Le Corbusier Le Grand
by Mark Lamster
Mark Lamster reviews the biographies Le Corbusier: A Life and Le Corbusier Le Grand.... More

Dangerous Curves
by Paul Shaw
Dangerous Curves, the latest from Doyald Young, is a paean to the power of the pencil without being an anti-computer screed.... More

The Fundamentals of Illustration
by Caitlin Dover
Spank Rock and Fundamentals of Illustration, reviewed.... More

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